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"Google couldn't scale" or maybe his plugin skewed the results making personalized search ineffective?
Story: Is Desphinning rude?
I usually won't Desphinn an article if I disagree, I'll comment instead.
Usually, I only Desphinn for articles that are not appropriate for Sphinn. Not spam, just nothing to do with SEO.
Story: Is Desphinning rude?
@bbcarter Very true. I don't desphinn articles about that kind of stuff, but you bet I'm going to desphinn pictures of cats or your favourite band's tour schedule.
What about non-english articles? I never know whether to desphinn an article in a language that I don't read. How does everyone else react?
The link is borked. Correct link is http://www.ppchero.com/2008/06/11/don%e2%80%99t-make-this-mistake-when-opening-a-new-ppc-account/
Don't put punctuation in your URLs, kids.
It was on Digg's main page just after I Sphunn it. Ah well, nice article.
Glad you like it, Gab. Not sure how easy it would be to hack into Pligg though.
Users should get some kind of reward for marking stories as spam. So if I flag a story as spam and it subsequently gets removed then I get a "spam-killer" point.
Then make a top ten list of spam killers with a dofollow link to their websites?
These are interesting tips but I would consider them at least greyhat, if not blackhat. There's far more about having many accounts and identities than authority building or 'user experience' - definitely doesn't make it a bad article though.
I have no doubt that almost all successfull SEOs use some of these tricks but I also know that if you're out to fool Google you're likely to get found out and penalised. I guess it's all about stopping the slight-of-hand before it becomes mainstream.
Story: 20 Googles About Google
"Colin Farrel searches for his name every day"
Brilliant, but prove it! Got a laugh from me anyway.
Good points, John & sza - I especially liked 'The idea itself is frighteningly stupid' :-)
I may be wrong, but the adverts looked like they were each targetting different engines. If that's the case, they are asking that readers remember the search term AND the search engine. That was one of the biggest factors in the failure of AOL search terms (in the UK at least, where AOL was not a big ISP at the time).
Wow, that's a great post. I know nothing about SEO and come to Sphinn to learn so this really helped me cut through the marketing and clique-forming. From what I have learned, the difference between white-hat and black-hat SEO changes all the time, usually at the whim of Google.
@seosmarty - I'm guessing this is how you feed your tweets that begin with [Sphinn]. Am I right?
Story: Meta Negative Keywords
That's a fascinating idea.
It would be like using negative SEO techniques on your own site. I wonder if there is some combination of techniques (like stuffing irrelevant keywords) that would not penalise your legitimate search results.
I hope Google pick up on this - they already do something similar for Adwords.
Story: Google Hijacks 404 Pages?
This is a bit of scare-mongering by TechCrunch - the toolbar doesn't alter a website's 404 page, but it will alter Internet Explorer's default 404 page. So, we can continue to serve our customised 404 pages as before and nothing will change.
You do all serve custom 404 pages, don't you? They're a good place to put your latest offers, best content and (at the very least) a search box.
I hope lots of bloggers pick up on these, there are some articles I'd love to read "Top 10 anti SEO websites" (and see the top ten best).
I'm a fan of Social Media Mom, for all her approachability and folksy-ness (is that a word), she's incredibly shrewd and can rip apart the latest SM fashion to expose its shallowness in a single post. Go SMM.
I'll be checking back on the other blogs too. Thanks for the heads-up.
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